Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph is devoted to the creation of a comprehensive formalism for quantitative description of polarized modes’ linear interaction in modern single-mode optic fibers. The theory of random connections between polarized modes, developed in the monograph, allows calculations of the zero shift deviations for a fiber ring interferometer. The monograph addresses also the Sagnac effect and the Thomas precession.
Devices such as gyroscopes, used in navigation and flight control, work based on this technology. Given the ever increasing market for navigation and air traffic, researchers and practitioners in research and industry need a fundamental and sound understanding of the principles. This work presents the underlying physical foundations.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Fiber ring interferometry based on the Sagnac effect
3. Development of the theory of a polarization modes linear interaction (random coupling) in a singlemode fiber lightguides
4. Experimental investigation of a polarization modes random coupling in a single-mode fiber lightguides
5. Fiber ring interferometers with a minimum configuration
6. Fiber ring interferometers with an original configuration
7. Geometrical phases in optics - Application of the Poincare sphere method for determination of a zero shift presence in a fiber ring interferometers
8. Unstable, nonlinear and magnetic effects and methods of removal of its influence on a zero shift in a fiber ring interferometers
9. Relativistic effects in optical and nonoptical ring interferometers
10. Conclusion
